GRUESOME FINISH
The graphic death of the mythical King
Pentheus of Thebes is depicted in this
fresco from the House of the Vettii in
Pompeii. In The Bacchae, Euripides recounts
how Pentheus was dismembered by a group
of maenads—including his own mother,
Agave—while the women were in the throes
of an ecstatic Dionysian frenzy.
SCALA, FLORENCE
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